#taskmaster Was I the only one yelling Egg at the screen? That sounded obvious!

when world is a fuck play guitar even if ur bad or sloppy

That half a second of inhalation at the beginning of FOB's Uma Thurman... <3

Inside Babies, the heartbreaking BBC drama about the toll of miscarriage A timely BBC drama taps into cultural anxieties around fertility as it follows a couple in their mid-thirties struggling to conceive. Actors Paapa Essiedu and Siobhán Cullen speak to Annabel Nugent

"...it is the focus and not some gestured-to subplot of a supporting character. Here, even the small moments speak volumes, such as when Lisa must go into the office the day after her miscarriage, forced to make small talk about the weather and the weekend."

www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

In the month it took me to miscarry my baby, the world seems to have turned to spring, and I don't know how I feel about that...

Still getting my head around the fact that I can drive, that I can actually drive, legally, without anyone beside me for as long as I want, as far as I want.
It's a dizzying concept, really...

Here she is!! The cover is absolutely spectacular and we can't wait for you all to meet Avis in all her snarky, Sherlockian, emotionally stunted glory. Read a bit more about her on our newsletter here: mkhardywrites.beehiiv.com/p/boat-book-...

Cyberpunk connects and reflects us. Exists like a nucleus at the epicentre of community.

It touches so much and connects. And Trans+ people have been here from the beginning in one form or another.

Help fund a book exploring that connection and so much more.

People frequently complain about being heavily pregnant in summertime, but what's less-often commented on is that that means you're first trimester in the dead of winter - with eternal rain, mood swings, and limited caffeine to help get out of bed in the mornings...

I'm still not sure what I thought about the autistic representation in Patience series 1, but every ND experience is different and I do like a good murder, especially when it's set in my town, so I'm going to give series 2 a go.

A mood board featuring (from top left to bottom right) a shot of flooded rice terraces, the card art from "Royal Magic Library", the alpine wildflowers of Mt. Rainier at sunset, a shot of Fountaine from Genshin Impact, the character Ajna from Indivisible, concept art of the Imperial City from the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, a sunset photo of the sunflower fields in Hakodate Japan, art from the promotional video of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree of Miquella riding Torrent, and a tulip field from the Puyallup Tulip Festival

✨Magical Academia!
💜Disaster Sapphics!
🔥 Arson!
😭Misbegotten Curses struggling to do "the Right Thing™️"

Lion Girl and the Ember Maiden is about being wrong, loving others, and fighting for your truth amidst the laws of a magic library!

#BluePit #BluePit📖 #MG #YA #F #SP #W #OV #LGBT #POC #TR

Hey, it’s a hard Monday, if you need some books here they are — short ones, sapphic ones, historical ones, the one with chickens, the ones in space, the one with bees, and the historical pair with demons falling in love where everyone’s named after apple varietals: www.oliviawaite.com/books

Politicians Discussing Doctor Who YouTube video by whoooob

My perennial special interest being talked about by my recent special interest? Yes please!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL7u...

Solid dark jade color background. The text reads, “Need a present for a writer? Find the perfect gift for your writerly loved one! Coaching Call: with a coaching call your author will be able to customize it to fit whatever they need.”

Finding the perfect gift for a #writer is hard. After you’ve run out of pens, books, & notebooks, it might be time to give them an editor!

With a coaching call they can customize it to fit whatever they need w/out committing to a full edit. $150 for 1 hour & reading 2.5k words (No Gen AI)

"I was going to contact you but a day turned into a week. Then it turned into a thousand years. Then it was just weird."

-Perfect ADHD quote from Lucifer

I thought I'd stan Esther--with her Gravity Falls Mable esque high energy and creativity--but Abaddon is my very inner gremlin and I appreciate that in his erratic character.
#hauntedhotel

Why do I Google questions I know full well the answer to...

What is a euphonium and why does it make the sounds it makes? This 76-page PDF report is based on my Master's project completed in 2019. I have rewritten it as a companion to my romance novel The Island Festival. To all you consummate nerds out there, you can le...

So I edited my Master's project and put it on BookFunnel as a companion to my queer romance novel
dl.bookfunnel.com/2uluv3v8xk

The cover for Danai’s debut novel, VILE VILLAINS illustrated by Audrey Benjaminsen

It’s here: the cover for the UK edition of VILE LADY VILLAINS, coming out April 02 2026 by Penguin Michael Joseph🖤

I'm probably not going to watch the movie, but I am still so hyped for the FNAF 2 movie. The LOREEEE

POV: listening to Falling For Strangers for the first time and getting jumpscared by Alex's whispered "Fuck it" on the bridge but loving it
#alltimelow #everybodystalking

Nursery are insistent that we should name things to stop them getting lost or taken by the wrong children.
Except - we've had two things that have gone missing in our time--the two items of clothing that WERE named

#urg #parentproblems

Sometimes I think I'm an expert at masking and then I remember that if I were, I'd probably be better at retaining friends and not irritating people, urg
#neurodivergent

OCTOBER

OCTOBER IS NATIONAL FREE WILLS MONTH
not November
let me get my head screwed back on, sorry

Been booking these in with work since the start of November. If you're over 55, in the UK, and you need a will/needs updating, do give it a look!
www.nationalfreewills.net

Guns and Ships in ASL YouTube video by ASL Theatre

This is bloomin brilliant

www.youtube.com/watch?v=niRT...

I'm officially shelving my timey wimey fantasy (I mean, I shelved it in June, but just haven't had the time to do a lot of writing admin over the past couple of months) and having looked through my querying spreadsheet, it turns out it's had 99 rejections. Sooo...one more query, then?
#writerproblem

Meet the residents of York's first co-operative housing scheme Families moving into community housing development include couple who wanted a green home.

BBC article about the cooperative living scheme down the literal road from me. (I'm so proud of everyone involved!)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not me editing a novel where my MC is actively not into customer service jobs when I'm about to go back full time into a front of house role because I miss the direct nature of helping people 🙃

#amwriting #writerproblems

I feel like I'm doing curly hair wrong, but I don't know how to do it RIGHT urgh